Borderlands 2’s DLC Has A Performance Killing Bug, But Here’s A Solution

Gearbox has already released the first of four DLC offerings for Borderlands 2, and already there seems to be an issue for PC owners. Players who have installed the first DLC might have noticed a sharp drop in performance, especially when it comes to large detailed areas and massive fights. The framerate begins to chug, you start dying out or nowhere and you smile starts turning into a frown.

Gearbox has noted that a problem exists, and it seems to only affect people using Nvidia cards to run the game. Personally I can confirm this, as my GTX 590 was handling everything I threw at it pretty well until I purchased the Season Pass this weekend. Apparently a bug in the DLC is causing some issues with the PhysX, which in turn is leading to some ugly framerate drops in beautiful and expansive areas.

However, there seems to be a solution. Well, a temporary one at least. Gearbox have stated that they are working close with Nvidia to release an actually patch for the issue, but until then they recommend anyone using a Nvidia GPU to notch down PhysX to low, or even turn it off completely. This may take away some truly awesome visual elements of the title, but at least your framerate will remain relatively stable while you play.

Thankfully Steam is rather easy when it comes to a deployment of a patch, so once Gearbox has finished testing the fix they seem to have already found, a patch shouldn’t be far behind. Until then, just crank down those settings and carry on enjoying Pandora.